Macedon Range Flora Book - $15 (plus postage & handling if required)
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Book updates
(eg. new plants found on Barrm Birrm since the book's publication)
Full plant list for Barrm Birrm listed by:
Family
Botanical Name
Common Name
Photos of the plants of Barrm Birrm - available soon
Photos of the weeds on Barrm Birrm - available soon
 Undulating Lighthill Ridge above the Barrm Birrm bushland is in the background with flat Western plains in the foreground.
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The book details all of the 208 native plant species known to exist on the magnificent bushland of Barrm Birrm (the hill that provides the backdrop to Riddells Creek - pictured above). This amounts to about 40% of the flora found in the Macedon Range and 1/25th of flora of Victoria. It is the most comprehensive book of the Macedon Range flora currently available.
Love Creeper (Comesperma volubile) climbing on
Narrow-leaf Bitter Pea (Daviesia leptophylla).
Some features of the book include:
208 plant species covered (including 27 orchids, 14 lilies, 14 wattles, and much more).
56 pages packed with information.
A4 size (with spine).
A
'Quick Plant Identification Guide' .
493 photos (485 by Riddells Creek Landcare members; 487 photos taken on Barrm Birrm).
Foreword by Neville Walsh (co-author of Flora of Victoria and Senior Conservation Botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens).
Maps detailing the location of Barrm Birrm and the extensive walking trails.
Many plants not previously known to exist in the Macedon Range.
One brand new plant, discovered on Barrm Birrm as part of this project - described for the first time in this book (Hairy-leaved Trigger-plant).
Labels on photos to highlight key features of the plant or to help explain complex terms.
A novel and comprehensive section on Eucalypts to help ID these difficult plants.
All variations of each plant species are presented (eg. male, female & bisexual flowers of Early Nancy; blue & white Wahlenbergia stricta and the 4, 5, 6 and 7 petalled forms).
The book was funded by a Port Philip & Westernport Catchment Management Authority Community Grant, the Australian Plant Society (Victoria), Macedon Ranges Shire Council and Riddells Creek Landcare.
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